senior; elder; person older than oneself
champion of justice; knight in shining armor; crime avenger; hero; super hero
to the last; persistency; thoroughness
very; extremely; extreme; excessive; splendid; impressive
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
judgment; judgement; discernment
wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
class; heading; group; category
doing whatever one pleases
remembrance; recollection; recognition
riding together; fellow passenger; joint partnership
arrangements; plan; programme; program; preparations
to benefit; to profit; to gain; to reap rewards
twosome; duo; pair (of criminals)
house; one's house; one's home; one's family
to become vulgar; to coarsen
measuring by feel; adjusting by feel; doing by feel; adapting to the situation (one's strength, strictness, etc.); making allowances; using discretion
to compile; to bring together; to weave; to put together; to bring to a conclusion; to wrap up
hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done
to happen to meet; to come across
to take care of; to bring up under one's personal care; to kill with one's own hands; to do personally; to handle (e.g. a job); to request that someone deal with (something)
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
ex-husband; former husband
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive
to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous
sweeping sideways; mowing down
backward glance; sidelong glance; faceless ghost with an eye in its rump
victory or defeat; issue (of battle); outcome
area; zone; (lit.) belt (of land)
clean sweep; purging; doing away with; eradication
underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
adherent; devotee; believer
faith; belief; piety; devotion; godliness
to support (someone) financially; to finance; to supply (money); to present (money or gifts) to a monarch (feudal lord, etc.)
maximum preference; maximum priority; priority handling
in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another
route; way; course; directions
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)